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Thank you to our amazing corporate partners!
10th June 2024
Thank you to our amazing corporate partners whose support helps us save lives and rebuild futures.
- A very warm welcome and thank you to our newest corporate supporters, Brewin Dolphin, whose West of England team (Bristol and Cheltenham) have chosen us as their Charity of the Year.
- Thank you to Keith Knowles, a Meningitis Now Business Ambassador, and all the staff at Beds & Bars and Belushi’s for their incredible support across their annual ‘Live Your Life Week’. The team raised over £21,100 as well as handing out over 1,200 meningitis signs and symptoms cards to customers across the UK.
- A big thank you to CORE Special Projects Ltd, for their amazing support. They hosted a golf day for us in June, which raised a fantastic £2,380 in memory of close friend, Pete Hynes.
- And a huge congratulations and thank you to Sarah-Jayne Beckett and Sarah Spyvee at CORE Special Projects for completing a skydive on Saturday 14th September. The jump took place at East Leys Farm in Bridlington. The team have now raised over £5,000 for Meningitis Now in memory of Pete Hynes.
- A special thank you to the team at Caroline Gardner Publishing for the fantastic donation of £7,453.75 from the sale of their Christmas cards and for joining us to cheer on our runners at this year’s London Marathon.
- Thank you to the team at Quayside Wealth Management who ran the Swansea Half Marathon on Sunday 9 June with our CEO, Tom Nutt, to raise funds for Meningitis Now. They were joined by staff from Tayntons, Leaders Romans Group and Miint Marketing.
- Thank you to the Fays Flowers team for hosting a Mother’s Day competition for us, with the lucky winner winning a 3 month flower subscription.
- A big thank you to GSK for their recent donation of £20,000.
- Thank you to Alison Eddy, a Meningitis Now Business Ambassador, and the team at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors for renewing their support as one of our Brighter Futures Partners with a donation of £5,000, and for their sponsorship of our Midsummer Party at The Mall Galleries, London, which raised over £18,500.
- Thank you to the teams at Irwin Mitchell and Enable Law for taking part in May Mayhem to raise vital funds and awareness.
- A special thank you for the donation of £291.51 that Meningitis Now has received from Nationwide, Ripley, following their recent Valentines Day, Mother’s Day and Easter hamper raffles, with another hamper raffle to come this Father’s Day.
- Thank you to Easement Solutions Limited for all their fundraising efforts this year raising over £1,300 in memory of baby Teddy. A particularly big thank you goes to Jason Everett who took on a 150-mile bike ride in one day, raising over £500. Special thanks also go to Caroline Gardner Publishing for donating a hamper worth over £100 for the Easement Solutions Limited team's raffle.
- We would also like to thank you for inviting our CEO Tom Nutt to the ‘Beyond the Boardroom’ event at Twickenham Stadium – this event was incredibly insightful.
- Thank you to Dignity Plc for a wonderful £20,000 towards our Believe and Achieve programme and Rebuilding Futures Fund awards to young people.
- A special thank you to longstanding supporter, Renishaw, for agreeing to be the headline sponsor of this year’s Five Valleys Walk.
- Thank you to Bluestone Insurance Services for sponsoring our Five Valleys Walk for a second year running.
- Thank you to the teams at Tigerbond for climbing Scarfell Pike and taking on the Three Peaks Challenge in memory of colleague, Rhiannon.
- Thank you to Source Group International for hosting a golf day in July to raise vitals funds in memory of Primrose Adey.
- Thank you to Hometrack team, who took part in “March for Meningitis”, with the aim to walk 10k steps a day throughout May and raised over £2,000.
- Thank you to Nationwide, Ripley for their ongoing support, including donations of over £300, from their recent hamper raffles .